The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-05-06

greatly at being obliged to work under
such disadvantages, with imperfect light,
and no facilities for extended production.
He dined almost daily with Hardness,
who, as he came to know him, was more
and more dazzled by his brilliant talk,
scientific requirements, and inexhaustlble
fund of anecdotes.
''You be on the look out, doctor" he
said to him one evening as they sat sip
ping their Chartreuse and smoking high
favored Havanas; elf you see anything
that'n suit you for laboratory, you just
let me know and III plank down the
cash.
The Teuton betrayed no emotion at this
proposal; but about a week later, when
there was q tremendous excitement on
change at the revelation of q corner In
Harkness's favorite stock, he rushed
breathlessly into the latter'S Office with q
copy of The Alta in his hand.
eLook here,'' he cried; "here is the
very thing we want: For sale-The
property of G. L. Perkins, Esq, at Oak
land I've just been out there, and Sol
Onion Sayles has got the refusal of it at
$42, 600 They are about to close the
bargain. Now, if we can offer $40, OOO
cash it's ours. 1t is dirt cheap, but Per
kins has got squeezed on change and
can't raise money in any other way for
margins. He has got to have the cash by
2 O'Clock. Now, if you'll run out there
with mel
''I run out there-are you cracked,
man?" roared the millionaire. Don't
you know that there's something very
much like panic on Changer
''Why, no, hadn't heard of it. Well,
then send out some agent of yours with
your check for $40, 900 or the right to draw
on you for that amount"
1.-THE deucei hain't got no time to
bother''
He scratched his head angrily, then
drew check for the required amount and
handed it to Wachtmeister. "You run
out and settle the thing yourself" he
said ''I know the property. 1t is worth
the money. / know, too, that Perkins is
in tight place. You'd better hurry
"But couldn't you send Lawson along
with mer'
'eYou just clear out. Do you suppose 1
can spare Lawson on day like this?''
''An right You'll hear from me to-
morrow"
Wachtmeister folded the check, put it
into his pocketbook and rushed out as
breathlessly as he had come. 1t was the
last time Mr.. Hardness had the pleasure
of gazing upon his countenance. He
learned by chance the next day that the
Oakland property had not been sold and
that no bid had been made for it by his
Teutonie protege. But man Of $50, 900,
600 consoles himself easily.
ga smart chap" he said to himself,
nOdding apprOvingly; "on the whole it
was not a bad investment. The mere
experience was worth $45, 900, with the
fun thrown I'M
It was in the early winter of 1882 that q
visitor was announced to Miss Hatcher
Schrader She gave a few decorative
touches to her person before the mirror,
rearranged her hair with q critical eye,
and then burst with headlong ardOr into
the adjoining room and flung herself into
the arms of her visitor She became con-
scious, however, before regaining the per-
pendicular state, that his enthusiasm was
scarcely equal to her own.
''Wel, Max" she said, concealing her
disappointment, "ten me the story of
your adventures.
Instead of answering Max pulled from
his pocket package of papers which he
unfolded and carefully spread out upon
the table They were United States bonds
of the aggregate value Of at least $50, O00
Katchen's eyes grew big and radiant as
she contemplated the possibilities Of happi-
ness contained in these prosaic figures.
"Oh, Max, my dear MaXF' she cried de-
hghtedly; ''you are a rich man. How
do love you'll But tell me how you made
so much money"
''I made my experiment in trangres-
sion.''
eyes, but how did you make it?''
''By the aid of my science"
Now, don't be provokingl What did
you do9''
81 asserted the power of an intellect,
the value of which, for practical pur-
poses, you had the kindness to question"
''Oh, shall go mad, Max, if you don't
tell me- exclaimed the girl. ''Do have
pity on meI'
every well, will tell you, not because
you deserve my confidence, but in order to
prove to you that the poverty to which the
devotee of science dooms himself is vol
untary one, and on that account sublime
The stricter moral law which Mr.. Har-
bitsch and his like ignore with impunity,
1, too, could ignore and be wealthy as
they. To be a scOundrel and go to jail for
it requires no great intellect; but to make
a safe and profitable experiment in trans
gression is quite another thing"
The story was then told, part of which
we have already heard; how Max hap
pened to cross in the steamer with Dutch
professor, who had served two years
sentence for counterfeiting; how he had
assumed his name aICof possessing nl10-
self of all the facts of his history, and in
San Francisco successfully played the part
of an alchemist. He had invested his pa
ternal inheritance of about So, 600 in the
experiment.; had bought metallic gold,
which he had reduced to precipitate with
sulphate of iron, and represented it in q
finely divided state as black sand, which
an expert would readily have recognized
as gold, but which wonld easily deceive
men with no chemical knowledge. When
he related the story of the check and the
exactness with which, by his insight into
human nature, he could predict the &C.
tons of man and aIlay his suspicious,
Katchen's eyes sparkled with amusement.
''Oh, Max, my dear Max" she ejacu-
lated, laughing, 81 never dreamed that
you were so clever.'
''But I" he responded with uncomfort-
able seriousness, 81 gave you credit for
being great deal cleverer."
'fWhat do you mean by that?"
"You seem to have forgotten that this
was mere experiment In transgression.
'tDo you mean to say you won't keep
the money!"
eyes; 1 have already telegraphed to
Mr.. Hardness informing him that the sum
of $40, 900 win tomorrow be awaiting his
order in the Imperial Bank of Germany"
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